Catching Up

The eve of the royal wedding. Totnes bedecked with two Union flags and some bunting in a couple of charity shops. Be interesting to see if English Heritage flag over the Castle gets swopped for the old 'red,white and blue' when tomorrow comes. Enticements coming from local election candidates getting very amusing. Including one which will see Vire Island renamed Fire Island! Yes - he wants permanent barbecues installed so families can gather to create a summer-time town smog to rival anything being cremated on the banks of the River Ganges. Don't expect my vote. And l don't want more of the castle slopes dug up for bloody allotments when so many people have huge gardens at home. Dig up your own rose beds and leave one of the town's star tourist attractions alone. Please scientists hurry up and design a simple way of harnessing the sun's energy before the whole town suffocates under plastic photo cells. They are hideous and add to the clutter of dormer windows, Sky dishes and old aerials. Look also to the hills as you cross the park towards the leisure centre. Polythene is creeping over Devon's green fields. Do we really new strawberries two weeks earlier than normal. To every thing there is a season.